Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 1

The Wcalher home rniTUfTUi EDITION II Irll ITj STATE IV; WtmUm Bama. Km Diminishing wind tonight. Thura-day partly cloudy. Low tonight 32. High Thursday 44.

54 Pago Regular international news servilk prjirr eriTV rrVTa Pago Tabloid associated press united press iiiv or. IU1 Uiviia ONE HUNDRED-FIRST YEAR LANSING EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1936 am Tornadoes etern Gut Wide atk of Destruction Midiig At Least 18 Killed NearGrandRapids More Than 200 Injured; Property Loss Runs Into Millions; Hudsonville Hard Hit Storm Victims Listed GRAND RAPIDS, April 4 (JB Here is a revised list of the 18 dead in western Michigan's tor By EDWARD J. MARKAITY AND GEORGE WALKER 'GRAND RAPIDS, April 4 (AP Western Michigan counted at least 18 dead today in the path of tornadoes that spread destruction over a wide area last night The twisters injured 200 persons and left some homeless. Property damage was estimated in the millions of dollars. State police and national guardsmen Joined sheriffs officers in searching the ruins for bodies.

Helicopters helped direct the search. Officers said 18 bodies had been recovered and possibly other victims were still buried in the rubble. One victim was unidentified. Hardest hit was the town of Hudsonville, a community of 1,300 in the heart of the onion and celery growing area 10 miles nadoes as compiled by state police and sheriff's officers after a -I' cliClif'5 fefcrS: 'ill Full Page of Picture on Page 9. Other Picture and Storie on Page 2, 7, S.

13, li, 25, 31 and 54 check with hospitals: HUDSONVILLE AREA William Oottendorp, 35, a teacher at Unity Christian high school, and hit son, Stephen Oottendorp, 17 months. Glenn Enting, 3. Mrs. Francet De Klein, 31, and her daughter, Yvonne, 3. Mr.

Louite Brouwer, 40. Dewee Leegttra, 70. Bert Mertink. Gerald Berghortt, 16. Shirley De Windt, 3.

Mr. Lene Miedeme. Mr. William Van Dyke. One unidentified.

STANDALE-GRAND RAPIDS AREA Mr. Anna Hart, 89. Alfred E. Payne, 4X Mr. Adolph Peplau.

Agne Ykema, 40. THOMPSONVILLE Mr. Hugh Park, 55. southwest of Grand Rapids. Scores of homes were demolished there and at least 13 persons were killed.

At Hudsonville, the wind spared the business district and chose instead an erratic path through farmland lying to the west Four persons were killed in the suburban Standale area. A farm woman died in one of several tornadoes that swept through the Traverse City area, 100 miles north. Nearly 1,000 national guardsmen were mobilized to assist in rescue operations. Firemen, state and local police and civil defense workers la- northwest edge of Grand Rapids. The center sustained millions of dollars in damage.

(Photo by Dick Frailer, Journal Staff Photographer) TORNADO-SPUN WEB Framed behind webbing of power and telephone wires is wreckage from- part of the suburban Standale shopping center on the 10 States Hit Cold Front Windstorms By Hangs On Tornadoes at a Glance (By The Associated Prett) Tornadoes and violent wind storms struck 13 mid-continent states Monday and Tuesday, killed a least 46 and injured more than 325. The toll by states: Michigan 18 dead; more than 200 injured at Hudsonville, Standale, and near Traverse City; 2.000 homeless. Wisconsin 8 dead; more than 50 injured at Berlin and Bancroft Tennessee 4 dead; 36 injured at Lexington and near Dyers-burg. Kentucky 3 dead, one injured near Henderson. Mississippi 1 dead; 4 injured near Tunica.

Arkansas None dead; 5 injured near Iowa None dead; several injured south of Sioux City. Nebratka 1 dead In traffic accident attributed to storm near Auburn. Indiana None dead; 21 Injured near Salem. Illinois None dead; 9 injured in Chicago. Oklahoma 5 dead.

Kansas 2 dead. (Combined Oklahoma-Kansas injured estimated at 50.) Texas 3 dead in traffic accidents blamed on dust storms. GoI Weather to Remain At Least Through Thursday Casualty Toll in Two-Day Outbreak Of Storm Weather Is 49 Dead And 325 Injured (By The Associated Press) A series of tornadoes and destructive wind storms struck with unabated fury across 10 states in the mid-continent yesterday killing at least 49 persons and injuring more than 325 others. Yesterday's violent spring storms, battering areas from the midwest prairie lands southward into Mississippi, came in the wake of tornadic winds which raked the southwest earlier Tuesday and Monday night. Hourly Temperatures 451 a.

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Citq I', n. urmarr nana ti The cold front which brought death and misery to western The casualty toll from the two- day outbreak of stormy weather Innnt An Ha.iI HAaA Michigan Tuesday night is still lurking in central Michigan, causing topcoat weather. than 325 injured. Property dam- i High winds and gusts whipped age was estimated in the millions of dollars. Hundreds were home- -7 less.

across the central portion of the state, causing a traffic mishap near Ithaca in which three were hurt, and disrupting telephone communications in Ionia county. Western Michigan, in the Grand Rapids district, suffered i- The Lansing area escaped with Latest reports showed at least 18 only a spatter of rain as black clouds loomed in the northeast Nohtk bored through the night, probing through wreckage In a search for the injured and dead. Others stood guard to prevent looting. Communication and power facilities were knocked out, isolating several communities and leaving them In total darkness. Hospitals in Grand Rapids, and nearby Zeeland and Holland were jammed to capacity and all available medical help was summoned to assist in the emergency.

It was Michigan's worst tornado since the d'sastrous June 8, 1953, twister that killed 130 in Flint This also was the earliest that a death-dealing tornado has struck the state. Buildings Leveled The storm literally wiped out the business district in the shopping district of Standale, eight miles west of here. Fifteen buildings lining State Highway 50, all less than 10 years old, were leveled within seconds. Shoppers saw the twister coming about five minutes before it struck. They scurred into basements and huddled against walls until the storm was over.

Many were injured. Donald Hatch, owner of a drug store, said he saw tha black funnel of the tornado bearing down and shouted to clerks and customers to "hit the floor." "Everybody did," he said. "And then the tornado came with See TORNADOES Page 2, Col. 5 j. The wind velocity reached 36 miles an hour here at 9:30 p.

with gusts recorded as high as 52 miles per hour. dead, 17 identified and one un- identified. More than 200 were h' injured. A dozen twisters hammered the area, destroying scopes of homes. Some 2,000 were reported homeless.

The fresh outbreak of storms during the day and early evening killed 8 and injured more than 50 in two Wisconsin communities. Also in the path of the turbulent weather were sections of Illinois Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Nebras- ttlte Poii's news Winds were supposed to diminish Wednesday night but it will remain cool, with the mercury right on freezing, at 32 degrees. High Thursday will be a THE most important and the most neglected developments on the politico-economic front today are the fierce wars chilly 46. A temperature record was set or equalled here for the second Tennessee, Arkansas and Mis- day in a row. The- thermometer sissippu rose to 76 degrees Tuesday equalling a record established WIDESPREAD STORMS In Washington, the Red Cross -r -T- Lights Etch Death April 3, 1921.

On Monday it reached 73 to break a 71-degree record set on April 2, 1946, for said in a preliminary report, that 170 homes were destroyed. 403 damaged and a total of 835 families affected by the storms in Tennessee, Mississippi, Michigan, For Son, Grandson By DICK FRAZIER (Journal Staff Writer) Anvil A Tha trannlnff tiuW firmer Stfiod Wisconsin, Ukianoma and Kansas. The Red Cross sent 43 disaster specialists into the stricken areas. Tornado warnings, which were in the darkness on 36th drew the collar of Us plaid Mackinaw the date. Bulletin The state house of representative Wednetday after neon concurred 71-19 in tenate amendment en the bill te buy a Boy Vocational school site.

A $200,000 sum would be appropriated tot the state social I a department, which would be given authority to buy the tire. News Highlights BVS BILL Passed unanimous posted by weather bureaus in the midwest and south during the day, were lifted late last night ud around His neca ana nrcu vui uui y-. i. Ik. miiriitv mmA Its ronta arlDDlnS! euJ, BKSStaK xtm' A large em with oozy muck and its trunk reaching across a rain-swollen draln The stormy weather appeared headed into the northeast The Boston WPflthpr bureau fnranaet Ait in the Datrol car explained, ges The man had just gotten out severe thunderstorms for New '1 -K of a car.

and he stood there turing toward the figure ia the England late tonight The bureau watching a sUte trooper who 1 said they might be- the "first plaid markinaw. "We bavent told him, but he knows we've. was pointing a nasniigni i- a tnnVsrf lik a bundle and rivalries within tne merged A. F. O.

union. They will be revealed in headline fashion when worried leaders hold an emergency conference at Washington next week. While these unexpected difficulties do not presage a dissolution of the 15,000,000 workers organization, they do. dissipate Republican fears of its pro-Democratic influence on the presidential election. In 1952, almost all the groups now consolidated endorsed Adlai E.

Stevenson, although he fell far short of capturing more than a mere majority of the men in the shops. Many "liked Dee." CONTROL WITHIN LABOR ORGANIZATIONS J7QUALLY important from a political standpoint, the difficulties in managing and merging so many belligerent figures and controversial bodies into a smooth, effective machine assure that there will be no serious strikes, like that at Westinghouse, to mar the Eisenhower "prosperity" theme See OBSERVER Page 4, Col. 4 Check Too Big SANTA FE, N. April 4 (UP) Mrs. Joseph Scanlon mailed her monthly allotment check for $20,000,025 back to the air force today and asked for another one made out in the regular amount $25.

Mrs. Scanlon said her bank told her it didn't keep enough money on hand to cash a check that big, and her husband didn't have any better luck at a cafe. lead" up to a tornado in the re- i gion. Lansing 4 found her." of rags in the rubble of what had Heavy hail and rain pelted the i ACROSS THE BRIDGE been a house oeiore uw iwmw struck a few hours previously. tnunwr tieht-roDed storm stricken regions.

Temperatures, which had climbed into the The fanner paced up and down the road as the funeral home 0s in midwest dropped. out onto the elm trunk until be hearse arrived, and as the at The cooler air, however, did not tendants and troopers carried reacc into uie south. lha hnrfv irrnu the floor-less had cleared the far edge oi ue creek. Jumped off and walked over to the trooper with the flashlight The intense storm center in bridge which crossed the ditch. Minnesota spread ice and snow over parts of the central and northern great plains.

Several He passed me just as tne tiasa-bulb of my camera momentarily lllnminilMt tha austere ore-dawn NOD OF DEATH Thv hnt down 11 a SDOtlight scene on the bridge, and his face i from a patrol car was played on twuiuujiiuca ill iieuroaKa ana South. Dakota were isolated. ly by senate. Page 3. UN DULL? Seems so but isn't Page 38.

WINGS LOSE Fall behind two games. Page 42. Bedtime Stories 24 City in Brief 2 Comics .....30 Crossword Puzzle 34 Dorothy Dix 29 Editorials, Features 4 Health Talks 19 Junior Editor 31 Legislative 3, 10, 25 Market 46 Radio, TV 41 Society 26-27 Sports 42 to 45 State Page 39 Theater 40 Thinking It Oyer 18 Vital Statistics 249-46 Weather 1-46 Women's Features 28-29 was frozen with sorrow. On tht wav hack to the ear them, then arose ana snaoea tkir from the blinding Heavy, drifting snow and ice was the outlook from eastern North 5 I stopped in front of the disin light Both of them nodded their I )a lent a nnn o-riroma 'nnrfhaad 6 South Dakota across northwes- heads and tne spouigni wem out tegrated house where the woman's body had been found and wrnnAmrsA Iiaw a human hpinff The fanner started to wain could possibly survive a tornado. out on the log and hesitated tern Minnesota.

Around "two inches of snow fell in sections of Nebraka and the Dakotas, with falls measuring up to a foot in some areas. when bis son, a youth of 17 or so, cried: "You don't want to an mit thr Dad cona on Only a lull bottle of olives and an aluminum Ice-cube tray were intact Everything else was simply broken bricks, splintered boards and twisted mctaL The 1 tornadoes which hammered Michigan caused heaviest back, you don't want to go out there and see her." Tuetday night. Late reports Wednesday after noon have reduced the death to: I in the Hudsonville area from 17 13. WHERE TWISTERS STRUCK This map, drawn by Tom Tryon, State Journal artist, shows where the three major tornadoes lathed at Michigan, "It's bis mother," trooper See STORM Page 2, Col. 3.